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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction+Sep 26 2004, 04:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (FlamesAddiction @ Sep 26 2004, 04:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Mean Mr. Mustard@Sep 26 2004, 04:25 PM
There were people that ran away from signing up from WWII I would think. Should we build a monument for them. Should they be considered heros.
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Are we talking about people on both sides of the conflict? It's totally different if you are under attack and you refuse to fight.
How do you feel about people from Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, and Africa who left their countries and came to Canada to escape having to fight a war? Are they all cowards too? [/b][/quote]
Bringing deserters from World War II into this is valid.
It demonstrates that both "good" wars and "bad" wars bring out a certain element who refuse to fight, making the issue of whether the conflict is proper or not somewhat moot to the question.
There is no monument to American deserters or concientious objectors in World War II.
Are we talking about people on both sides of the conflict? It's totally different if you are under attack and you refuse to fight.
Germany didn't attack Britain or France in the opening days of the war. Yet those two countries reacted as if Polish soil was their own, as they had warned Germany they would beforehand. Germany didn't attack America either but the USA jumped in after Pearl Harbour. Would it have been alright if an American had said he objected to fighting Germany but was okay with going to war in the South Pacific?
Similarly, the Soviets/China and the USA engaged in many proxy wars during the Cold War, Vietnam and Afghanistan being only two examples.
How do you feel about people from Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, and Africa who left their countries and came to Canada to escape having to fight a war? Are they all cowards too?
Were they drafted by a recognizable government for the purpose of serving their country?
Cowperson